>> Remember >> those buttery lunchroom cookies.

They were a staple in hundreds of Chicago public schools.

This simple shortbread cookies sold for a couple of cents for years.

Joanna Hernandez spoke with an entrepreneur putting her spin on this classic treat.

>> How can you forget the 3 finger pressed butter cookies.

Bill Romer of these freshly baked treats.

We'll take you back in time.

So this is where >> the magic happens.

Yes.

So tell me a little bit about what inspired you to make that classic lunch from cookie that many of us grew up to love.

Yeah, it was very familiar to me in a recipe kind of came my way.

And I thought I'd try it out and unsuccessful the first time for the second time came out, Curry and I've always sort of been an entrepreneur at heart and I thought maybe also born and raised on the south side of Chicago.

Cheryl Crockett says.

>> She still remembers the joy of biting into a lunchroom cookie.

>> gave us a little extra money, you know, to buy those.

So we would be excited for Cookie because we could smell him from from our classroom.

>> Crockett took her fond childhood memories and turn them into a business after spending 20 years in corporate America, she says her big career change started in her kitchen before branching out and eventually opening her own space in the medical district.

>> I've taken over a space and named it cracking cookies, food venue.

So we work with a couple food vendors here and then the other large part of this is where we produce the cookies.

>> Every day 5,000 cookies are freshly baked here.

>> It starts with my mixer to nix is on a large 84 mixer and then we get them cooking the she the kind of cuts that do for And then we do a little bit of handwork.

There's quite a bit of handwork production all with making.

That could be too.

So it's very personalized.

So we know the classic luncheon cookie.

>> Has some of those 4 simple ingredients, flour butter, vanilla extract, a sugar and sugar forget the singer.

What would you say makes yours different.

What's your spin to it?

show sugar.

I when things I wanted to do was pull back on the I really wanted people to taste the butter and the freshness.

So there's you know, there's sugar in there.

But you really do taste the buttery flavor with my cookies because at fullback it took out some of the ship.

>> And if you want to try, well, of course, to say no to and then you can feed 3 fingerprints there, which is very important because that's the classic staple when you would go into electro its a 3 finger.

Everything up front there.

And so package them this way with sort of a clear top so that when people go in the store, they'll see that 3 fingerprint.

It brings back memories.

This is politics and that's kind of a selling point.

Makes people realize what they're buying.

Let's try And I have not tried these cookies in a long time.

I remember them that's it.

Freshly out it's the butter.

There's so Gooding you.

>> It has been 11 years since Crockett Cookies launched.

But for Cheryl, the memory of securing her first account to sell her cookies still brings her joy.

>> I decide to try and get them into one Walgreens and I went back to the same location, kind of threw on corporate soon.

And I left samples for the manager.

He wasn't there the first couple eventually Crockett Security meeting with the manager.

>> She says changed the course of her business walking away with an order for 200 packages of cookies.

>> feels really good when the public likes them or by go somewhere.

And someone by those all the time.

>> For Chicago tonight, I'm joined Hernandez.